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Sir Isaac Newton died a virdgin to atone for this sin (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pythagoras died a ‘thirdgin’ because of this. /s

I.e. you don’t even need algebra to use letters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The funny part is that his theorem had already been discovered by an ancient civilization. I want to say the sumarians, but honestly that's the only one I'm familiar with, so I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would not be surprised if someone thought of that >1000 years before him.